The phrase "a plague that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a harmful or widespread issue, often in a metaphorical sense, relating to something that causes significant problems or distress.
Example: "The city faced a plague that affected its economy and public health, leading to widespread concern among its residents."
Alternatives: "an epidemic that" or "a scourge that".
By improving the crops, he said, the African orphan crop consortium, which includes corporations such as Life Technologies and the conservation group WWF, could eradicate a "plague" that costs Africa $125bn a year.
The AIDS virus is a plague that now afflicts one in five adults in South Africa.
Perhaps the biggest setback to progress was the cholera epidemic – a plague that has itself been blamed on foreign intervention.
Was he a symbol of a plague that carried off the youths of the German town of Hamelin?
But, to the degree that it's spreading, we can really wonder if we're looking at a plague, a plague that could affect the whole country.
In a medieval land ravaged by the Red Death, a plague that causes swift, agonizing death, Prince Prospero retreats to his castle with 1,000 knights and ladies.
Surely only the God of the Old Testament would imagine a plague that smites gay men just as they are starting to enjoy themselves.
That might have been the end of yet another dispiriting tale of cultural vandalism, a plague that has struck China just as it has many other countries.
This is a plague that threatens not just the lives of tens of millions, but the economic development and stability of vast regions.
Hunan's love affair with binglang began more than 300 years ago, when, according to local lore, a magistrate promoted it as a cure for a plague that was sweeping the region.
He wrote the following: "In pedophilia, the church has unleashed upon itself a plague that threatens its very future, and yet it remains in a curious state of denial.
